Jim Update

It has been 25 days since Jim's transplant. Joe continues to work great!!

Jim's been quite busy the last 3 weeks. He has:

* got his drain removed

* got his stent removed....Ouch!!!

* got most of his staples removed

* been hospitalized for severe pain from the cysts on his old kidneys rupturing

* had a plasmapheresis treatment done due to high titer levels. Should be below 64, his had gone up to 256. We were told prior to transplant he may need some additional treatments post-transplant. It was down to 16 when he left
* had an IVIG treatment which helps with the antibiodies and helps keep the titer levels down.

This is how we spent most of our time in the hospital over the weekend just sitting around waiting....

Check up today with the transplant team was good. Other than his blood pressure being higher than normal, everything else checked out great. Creatinine level is down to 1.2 which is awesome!!!.

Keep up the good work....